@article {327244,
	title = {Modern human incursion into Neanderthal territories 54,000 years ago at Mandrin, France.},
	journal = {Sci Adv},
	volume = {8},
	year = {2022},
	month = {2022 Feb 11},
	pages = {eabj9496},
	abstract = {<p>Determining the extent of overlap between modern humans and other hominins in Eurasia, such as Neanderthals and Denisovans, is fundamental to understanding the nature of their interactions and what led to the disappearance of archaic hominins. Apart from a possible sporadic pulse recorded in Greece during the Middle Pleistocene, the first settlements of modern humans in Europe have been constrained to ~45,000 to 43,000 years ago. Here, we report hominin fossils from Grotte Mandrin in France that reveal the earliest known presence of modern humans in Europe between 56,800 and 51,700 years ago. This early modern human incursion in the Rh{\^o}ne Valley is associated with technologies unknown in any industry of that age outside Africa or the Levant. Mandrin documents the first alternating occupation of Neanderthals and modern humans, with a modern human fossil and associated Neronian lithic industry found stratigraphically between layers containing Neanderthal remains associated with Mousterian industries.</p>
},
	issn = {2375-2548},
	doi = {10.1126/sciadv.abj9496},
	author = {Slimak, Ludovic and Zanolli, Cl{\'e}ment and Higham, Tom and Frouin, Marine and Schwenninger, Jean-Luc and Arnold, Lee J and Demuro, Martina and Douka, Katerina and Mercier, Norbert and Gu{\'e}rin, Gilles and Valladas, Helene and Yvorra, Pascale and Giraud, Yves and Seguin-Orlando, Andaine and Orlando, Ludovic and Lewis, Jason E and Muth, Xavier and Camus, Hubert and Vandevelde, S{\'e}gol{\`e}ne and Buckley, Mike and Mallol, Carolina and Stringer, Chris and Metz, Laure}
}
